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Rock Critic Steven Hyden ("Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me", "Twilight Of The Gods") talks with rock stars and the country’s biggest music writers about what’s happening in rock. Presented...
Steve decided to take the podcast out of hibernation for this special one-off episode on the best albums of the 2010's, with special guest I...
Every year of my professional life as a music critic, I've made year-end lists. Sometimes it was because I simply had to do it, but more oft...
This week we return with another installment of Contrarian's Canon, our semi-regular series with Ryley Walker where we talk about great albu...
Last month, we started a new game called Fantasy A&R, where we take a classic album and attempt to improve/mutilate it by making our own stu...
Back in 2016, I wrote a column in which I declared that The Last Waltz is the best Thanksgiving movie. "It affirms the faith in the power of...
In the week's episode of Celebration Rock we introduce a new game called Fantasy A&R, where we take a classic album and attempt to improve/m...
In the late '90s, the Dave Matthews Band was one of the biggest bands in the world. Each of their first three albums went multi-platinum, an...
On this week's episode of Celebration Rock I invited Pitchfork senior editor (and now friend of the podcast) Stacey Anderson to discuss this...
In the past few weeks, two of 2018's most anticipated rock albums have been released: Trench by Twenty One Pilots and Anthem of the Peaceful...
Last month, I invited great indie-rock guitarist and hilarious Twitter user Ryley Walker on the podcast to talk about an album that impacted...
This month is the 15th anniversary of Logic Will Break Your Heart, the debut album by Montreal quartet The Stills, one of many scruffy, post...
Last Friday, a career-spanning box set called An American Treasure was released delving into the work of Tom Petty, in time for the one-year...
If you've spent any time reading the liner notes of classic '90s rock albums, there's a very good chance you know the name Michael Beinhorn....
Last month, I did a Celebration Rock episode on my favorite sleeper albums of 2018 . This week, I figured that the need to talk about lesser...
There used to be an old saying about how you should never talk about politics or religion in friendly conversation, because those are the to...
Back in May, I interviewed the hilarious and talented singer-songwriter Ryley Walker about his very good recent album, Deafman Glance. But o...
In this episode, we review some of the most notable rock albums from the month of August, including the latest from two legacy acts and rece...
If you have read any music writing at all online in the past 20 years, there's a very good chance you have encountered Mark Richardson in so...
Fifty years ago this summer, one of the greatest debut albums in rock history was released. Though when The Band put out 1968's Music From B...
Throughout the year, really good albums come and go with minimal attention. What happens to those records once they are sucked into the blac...
One of the best things about being a music critic with a podcast is being able to ask an artist you've written about to confirm or deny opin...
On July 27, one of the greatest rock albums of modern times turns 25. At least I count Siamese Dream as one of the best guitar records of th...
Even if you don't know the name Shawn Everett, it's very likely that you've enjoyed an album that he's produced, engineered, or mixed in the...
This summer, Counting Crows will be back on the road for their "25 Years And Counting" tour, celebrating a quarter-century since the release...
In the past decade. Starting with 2009's North Hills, the quartet has been distinguished by strong, understated ensemble playing and Taylor...
Can you believe that we're already (almost) six months into the year? What better time to count down some of our favorite albums of 2018 so...
On June 29, Jim James will release his third solo album, Uniform Distortion . It's a loose, raw collection of guitar-heavy songs that rail a...
The best part of having a podcast is that it gives me an excuse to reach out to people who I think are smart or interesting, and talk to the...
On June 1, big albums dropped by Kanye West and Father John Misty, and one of them was much better than the other. I talked about both recor...
Recently, I had the chance to talk with two of the leading lights in contemporary indie rock. First, we visit 19-year-old phenom Lindsey Jor...
May has been a good month for notable rock releases, including albums by Arctic Monkeys, Courtney Barnett, and Beach House. For this episode...
Last week, I released my new book, Twilight Of The Gods: A Journey To The End Of Classic Rock. It's about the generation of rock stars from...
In late April I visited Cincinnati to attend the first ever Homecoming, a festival headlined and curated by The National that also featured...
In 2016, I published my first book, Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life. For all of...
A few months ago, I was on a serious Pete Yorn kick. The singer-songwriter, whose best-known album is his 2001 debut Musicforthemorningafter...
Way back in January 2016, I launched a podcast. Over the course of 99 episodes, I've interviewed musicians, writers, and lots of other inter...
Last fall I wrote about Go Farther In Lightness , the second album by Australian indie band Gang Of Youths. At the time, Gang Of Youths had...
Let's go back 20 years to a fascinating time in music history. In 1998, the internet had not yet become the hub of how we listen to music &m...
"Boarding House Reach" is an utterly unique Jack White album — made with the assistance of ProTools, it's as layered and overstuffed a...
Of course Dean Ween is one of the founders of Ween, a band that has been putting out albums since 1990, though they haven't had any new albu...
If Robert Plant had stopped making music after 1980, his legacy would still be eternal as the lead singer of perhaps the greatest rock band...
The '90s are easily the least well-regarded decade of Bruce's career. If people make note of this period, it's to illustrate how far he fell...
Released on Oct. 9, 1987, " Tunnel Of Love" has a reputation among some Springsteen fans as his "soft rock, baby boomer divorce record." It'...
After the stripped-down "Nebraska," Bruce Springsteen went in the opposite direction for 1984's " Born In The U.S.A. ," one of the most popu...
In 1982, Bruce Springsteen released " Nebraska," a stark collection of acoustic songs recorded at home on a four-track in one marathon sessi...
For Bruce Springsteen 1980 double-album " The River," I spoke with Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus, whose latest album, " A Productive...
Our Bruce Springsteen series continues with Julien Baker, a wonderful artist whose 2017 album " Turn Out The Lights" was one of my favorite...
In episode two of our special Bruce Springsteen series, Jeff Rosenstock dives into the first true masterpiece of Springsteen's career, 1975'...
Welcome to 20th Century Boss, our in-depth series on the albums that Bruce Springsteen released in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. In episode one,...
On Dec. 22, 2002, Joe Strummer of The Clash returned home after walking his dogs and died suddenly at the age of 50. The cause of death was...